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Animal Crossing: City Folk (known as Let's Go to the City: Animal Forest in Japan and as Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City in PAL regions), is a game for the Nintendo Wii that follows on from previous games in the "Animal Crossing" series. The game was officially announced at E3 2008 at Nintendo's press conference, where the American release date was first announced. See here for a brief history of Animal Crossing. The game is available worldwide, and had the following release dates by region: Region Release date North America November 16th 2008 Japan November 20th 2008 Australia December 4th 2008 Europe December 5th 2008

Game Play Animal Crossing: City Folk plays very similarly to the previous Animal Crossing games. The Wii Remote pointer and motion controls are used for handling tools such as axes, fishing rods and bug nets. For the first time, players live in individual houses spread apart from each other, unlike the original Animal Crossing where the four houses were grouped together, and in Animal Crossing: Wild World where the players shared a house. Also for the first time, you can pick which of the four abandoned houses your character lives in. Players can now also customize back, front and sleeves of clothes, unlike previous games where the clothes were customized as a whole.

A number of real world holidays make a return, such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Bunny Day and Halloween. Holiday characters from previous games will make a return, including some new ones such as Zipper T., Pavè and Nat.

The City A new feature to the game is the city, which players can visit by bus from their town. Unfortunately, players will not be able to visit the city with friends.

Online Connectivity Animal Crossing: City Folk is the first Wii game with the option to use Wii Speak, a microphone option for the Wii which enables voice communication over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With Wii Speak, all people in a room may communicate with those in another room also containing the device, and can also have live text chat using a USB Keyboard. Players can communicate with other players by sending messages to either their town, Wii Message Board, mobile phone or personal computer.

An auction house run by Lloid, a Gyroid, is available in the city where players can auction off items to other players via Nintendo WFC, as well as an office for the Happy Room Academy run by Lyle, where players can see how well other players' towns are progressing.

There is also free downloadable content such as new furniture, models, accessories, etc. that are released periodically. One carpet has been released and there is a rumor of a wallpaper yet to be released.

The game also supports Nintendo DS connectivity functionality. For example, owners of Wild World can now move their character and catalog into AC City. Additionally, the DS can be used to transfer characters between Wii consoles as a means of visiting other player's towns via DS Download Play.